Improvement in wood-filling compounds



HENRY L. DORR, OF DAYTON, AND HENRY SEYFERT, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN WOOD-FILLING COMPOUNDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 160,010, dated February 23, 1875; application filed January 18, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that We, HENRY L. DORE, of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, and HENRY SEYFERT, of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a certain Compound called food-Filling, to he used in the preparation of wood or woody substances preparatory to varnishing the same, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to that class of compounds used for filling or sizing wood or woody matters preparatory to varnishing, and is applied in the same manner as scraping varnishviz., applied to the surface, allowed to dry, then rubbed or scraped down with pumice-stone, or otherwise again applied and rubbed down, and so on until a smooth, even, and proper surface and base or ground is obtained to receive the varnish and it consists in the composition formed by mixing the following ingredients in substantially the proportions hereinafter specified, although these proportions may be Varied according to the rapidity that drying or fixing may be desired, or to suit the adaptation of the compound to different kinds of wood, as may be found necessary.

To prepare our compound, take of collodion, say, four-eighths; of gum-shellac, (in its ordinary form of shellac Varnish,) say, threeeighths; of gum-san darach, in its natural state, say, one-eighth, and mix them together to a proper consistency for readily applying with a brush or otherwise.

The above-named proportions of the ingredients we have designated as the most suitable for rose-wood or walnut, although in woods of diiferent texture it may be found desirable 

